"What are you doing for Lent?" is a 40-day question, a question of discipline and practice, a question about how you are going to live in a season.

"What are you doing for Easter?" on the other hand, is usually a single-day question, a question of plans for attending Easter Sunday Mass, visiting family, egg hunts, brunch, etc. It's a piece of small talk, rather than a probing spiritual question.

However, Easter as a season is 50 days. Overall, we celebrate the Resurrection for longer than we were penitent to prepare for it.

So, what might you do for Easter? Suggestions below.

When changes come with Pentecost and the announcements of the All Things New process, you can have knowledge of the gifts the Holy Spirit has particularly bestowed on you in your creation and in your Confirmation sacrament.

Then we can be prepared to put them to use in whatever our new pastorate looks like.

To take a spiritual gifts inventory and find out more detail, visit

ucitylourdes.org/giftsofthespirit

We will have some guides for prayer printed in the cloister walk. They are meant for a pair of persons to take a walk together, read the account of Jesus and the disciples on the road to Emmaus in stages, and share your thoughts based on some reflection questions at each stage.

Set aside time to do with your spouse, a friend, each of your kids individually, etc. Find someone with whom to share the state of your faith and life, and who can share with you.

Take a stroll on a beautiful day. Consider beginning and/or ending in church with the Lord.

Download the Emmaus Walk

Sunday 4/23 is the First Communion Mass.

Therefore, if you want to pray a novena (a simple daily prayer for nine consecutive days) for the children who are approaching this sacrament, it starts Friday, April 14!

Novena for First Communicants

The Archdiocese would like us to pray together in this Easter season a forward-looking prayer, trusting that the Resurrected Jesus will never abandon us and will bring his life to us, even in and through any changes.

(The end of this Easter season, the solemnity of Pentecost, is scheduled to bring the final announcements from Archbishop Rozanski about the All Things New changes.)